Liberation (165 page)

 

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Melissa North (b. 1944) was a rock and roll booker's assistant; later, she ran a furniture shop, designed clothes and, eventually, interiors.
T
chaik Chassay, an architect and a founder of the Groucho Club, was remodelling Hockney's flat in Powis Terrace. They married in 1975.

 

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British art historian and art and ballet critic (1909–1982).

 

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French actor, mime, director, writer (1910–1994), best known for his film role in
Les Enfants du Paradis
(1945).

 

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Child actor and, later, leading man (b. 1936); his films include
The Secret Garden
(1949),
Kim
(1950),
Sons and Lovers
(1960),
Long Day's Journey Into Night
(1962), and
Married to the Mob
(1988).

 

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In Vietnam and, since April 29, Cambodia.

 

³
The 1969–1970 recession was a mild one; see Glossary under recession.

 

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Antiwar protesters; see Glossary under Nixon and the students.

 

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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
, vol. 6, pp. 259–262.

 

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See Glossary.

 

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Towns in Yorkshire, Surrey, and Ireland, where Isherwood lived in childhood while following his father's regiment before W.W.I.

 

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Writers Guild of America contracts with producers expired June 15; writers and animators wanted a bigger share in arcane but valuable areas like possessing credit, runaway production and residuals.

 

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Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), pediatrician, psychoanalyst, and author of the bestseller
Baby and Child Care
(1946), campaigned against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War and ran for president in 1972.

 

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Only one picture sold—of Salvador Dali—to a friend of Bachardy's rather than to a client of Blum's. And Blum failed to press Brooke Hopper, his own friend, to buy the portrait of herself which she asked Bachardy to do and to hang in the show. This portrait was praised in the
Los Angeles Times
.

 

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Not his real name.

 

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William Ball (1931–1991), American stage director, founded the American Conservatory Theater in 1965 in Pittsburgh, moved it to San Francisco in 1967, and continued as artistic director for two decades.

 

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Isherwood was named in Forster's will; see Glossary

 

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More laziness than passion; see Glossary under
guna.

 

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Not his real name.

 

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Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1927–1989) whose radical approach to psychosis emphasized social interaction and the patient's existential choice to be mad or to be cured.

 

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Gilbert Peters.

 

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Swami was vacationing at a devotee's house in Malibu; Anandaprana forbade visitors so he could rest.

 

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An aspiring critic who was writing an essay about him.

 

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A puli (Hungarian sheepdog) with a shaggy corded coat.

 

²¹
August 11–12, 1969, on the return from Australia; see
D.2.

 

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Oxford-educated British screenwriter and university professor (1900–1981); he taught film, theater, aesthetics, and humanities at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. He appears in
D.1.

 

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Isherwood copied Kathleen's 1915 diary entry into his own diary, October 24, 1966 (see
D.2
), and it is unlikely this was engraved on the disk. The is phrase appears to be a mistranscription from Frank's German-language death certificate held in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. The certificate gives Frank's details on a pre-printed list. Item 6 on the list, “
Inhalt der Erkennungsmarke
” (contents of identity disk), is filled in as “siehe 5 C of E” (see 5 Church of England). The instruction to
see item 5
was simply miscopied,
siehe
becoming
siche
. Item 5 on the list “
Truppenteil
” (unit) is filled in as “Y. & L. Rgt.” (York and Lancaster Regiment).

 

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Antibiotic in the Tetracycline family.

 

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A play he and Bachardy wrote, beginning in October 1958; see
D.1
.

 

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A “queer” story he wrote in the summer of 1959; see
D.1.

 

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Her apartment, on Channel Road, was between the street and the eponymous channel of water, concreted since 1938 to contain flooding.

 

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I.e., out of the house.

 

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Canadian-born stage and screen actor (1914–1992), nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in
All the King's Men
(1949).

 

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Dr. Phillip Oderberg, a Santa Monica psychotherapist Bachardy began seeing in 1963; see
D.2.

 

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The other lovers and assistants of famous men included Chester Kallman (Auden), Robert Craft (Stravinsky), Howard Austen (Vidal), and Frank Merlo (Tennessee Williams).

 

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Not his real name.

 

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A longtime friend of Jack Larson.

 

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A psychiatrist who had been treating her.

 

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The piece never ran because of Bachardy's objections.

 

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In La Verne, California, at the July 1941 seminar on the active and contemplative life; attended by Gerald Heard, some of his followers, and members of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee. Stone Hull was a Christian minister and a pacifist. See
D.1.

 

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Not his real name.

 

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Ed Moses, Larry Bell, Joe Goode, Tony Berlant, Ron Davis, Ed Ruscha, Ken Price, Peter Alexander; see Glossary for more about these artists whose works are widely exhibited.

 

³⁹
Dusty and Sweets McGee
(1971).

 

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Poet, biographer, literary critic (b. 1915), from New Orleans, a longtime friend of Williams. He wrote about Carson McCullers, Anaïs Nin, and E.M. Forster, and worked as an English professor at several American universities.

 

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Kilh
efn
er; see Glossary.

 

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Interior designer and photographer, a close friend of Tony Duquette, who introduced him to Isherwood, and of Irving Blum.

 

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American political journalist (1918–1998); the screen adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Washington politics,
Advise and Consent
(1959), was Laughton's last movie.

 

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California-born Morris Fry catalogued the
New Writing
papers which Lehmann sold to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin; they met in 1969 and began an on-off affair.

 

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A John Bradshaw emigrated to the U.S. in the seventeenth century and pretended to be Judge John Bradshaw (1602–1659), Isherwood's ancestor born at Wyberslegh, who sentenced Charles I to death. As he tells in chapter 13 of
Kathleen and Frank
, Isherwood was unable to find out more.

 

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I.e., the formal recognition of these services by the Queen in making him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

 

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I.e., “The Other Boat,” mentioned above.

 

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A joint exhibition with Ed Ruscha, opening December 1 at the Hansen-Fuller Gallery.

 

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Los Angeles Times
, November 25, 1970, A4.

 

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This reconstructed diary appeared posthumously as
Lost Years: A Memoir 1945–1951
(2000).

 

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Adapted from Shakespeare's play, with John Gielgud as Caesar, Charlton Heston as Mark Antony and Jason Robards as Brutus.

 

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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Christian charity.

 

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Isherwood's New York agent; see Glossary under Curtis Brown.

 

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A secondhand book dealer.

 

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Teenage film star (1923–2005) in
Stage Door Canteen
(1943),
The Story of Sea Biscuit
(1949), and others; he retired at thirty and began investing in real estate.

 

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I.e. John Markovich.

 

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The clock was given to Isherwood by Fräulein Thürau and is described in
Goodbye to Berlin
, p. 15. Finkelstein, a neighbor, cleaned and repaired it on at least one other occasion, in 1968.

 

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Robert Walker Jr. (b. 1940) trained at Actors' Studio in the early 1960s and appeared on stage, in a few films, and often on T.V.

 

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Hendrik Van Keppel (b. 1914) and Taylor Green (b. 1914) ran a shop on Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills selling furniture of their own design along with housewares, lighting and jewelry by others.

 

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Chptr. 15.

 

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Cf., “The inner life had paid,” Forster,
Howards End
, chptr. 37.

 

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Elisabeth Luce Bradshaw Isherwood (1836–1921), his father's mother.

 

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The cliff on Oahu, over a thousand feet high.

 

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A Universal executive.

 

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The Daily Telegraph
, August 7, 1970.

 

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Grinnich, an actor who occasionally spent weekends with her.

 

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Her agent; he represented actors, writers, and directors in Hollywood and New York and later became a casting director for T.V. and films.

 

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Inflammation of a small sac or sacs formed on the outside of the colon.

 

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Mark 5.9, when Jesus casts out the demons.

 

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Tall, good-looking, and wealthy; once a companion of Speed Lamkin. He is mentioned in
D.2.

 

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Marietta Donegal in
Two Sisters
is modelled on Nin.

 

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Apollo 14
made the third moon landing on February 5.

 

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T.V. producer and director, for instance of “The Jack Benny Show” in the 1950s.

 

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A Japanese papier-mâché horse which Bachardy gave Isherwood for his birthday August 26, 1962 (see
D.2
). It was about six inches high, seven inches from head to tail, and had one foreleg daintily raised.

 

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Some apartments they had bought as an investment, on Hilldale Avenue in Santa Monica, financed partly with a loan.

 

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A Hindu truism.

 

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His wife had just died.

 

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Four two-story deco buildings with duplex apartments, mostly hidden by shrubs, on the corner formed by Adelaide Drive, Ocean Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard.

 

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London bookseller (1906–1986);
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
was the volume Isherwood didn't have when he resolved for the New Year to read his Constance Garnett translation.

 

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From a non-portrait series inspired by still pictures of movie stars.

 

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Charles Manson and his gang were convicted on January 25 of murdering seven adults and Sharon Tate's unborn child; in early February, the court reconvened for a jury trial to decide punishment.

 

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Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001), twin brother of playwright Peter Shaffer, studied law at Cambridge and worked in advertising and T.V. production; he adapted his Tony-Award-winning play
Sleuth
for the screen. Other screenplays include Hitchcock's
Frenzy
(1972).

 

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Miller (1919–1986), journalist, screen and T.V. writer, novelist, and biographer of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson, published “What It Means to Be a Homosexual” in
The New York Times Magazine
on January 17, 1971.

 

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Jean
e
Dixon (1918–1997), astrologer and Washington socialite, famous for her prediction that Kennedy would die in office.

 

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I.e., August 1952 to September 1953, when he lived in her garden house.